For more than five decades, the daily morning drama series of national broadcaster NHK has been a fixture of Japanese television and a staple in popular conversation. But for the first time, NHK is looking for a non-Japanese person to play one of the lead roles. Read More »

Henry Chan has spent most of his career in the U.S., directing episodes of such popular television shows as “Scrubs,” “Moesha” and “Lizzie McGuire.” So traveling to Taiwan to direct his first Chinese-language film, “100 Days,” was a homecoming of sorts. Read More »

ABC issued an apology after a “Jimmy Kimmel Live” skit spurred complaints from an Asian American group called 80-20. In the skit, which was meant to mock childish politicians, a child suggests in an unscripted comment that the U.S. “kill everyone in China” help wipe out U.S. debt. Read More »

The televised song and dance talent show may provoke controversy in the Muslim-majority country, where an increasingly vocal and violent minority consider singing and dancing strictly against Islam. Read More »

With the advent of the Internet and the popularization of smartphones, both of which encourage the use of Latin script for typing characters, many inside China itself are struggling to write even basic words. The result: A creeping sense of dread among Chinese language purists, and a wildly popular new TV show that tests students on their writing ability. Read More »